SINGAPORE: By day, Kenneth Tan can be found behind his desk at a small but bustling family car rental business in an industrial park in Ang Mo Kio.
“In your office job, you will surely find situations where you drag your feet to work. But in this case, I wouldn’t drag my feet there … When I’m on the way to a match, I would think: 'I’m going to enjoy a nice game'."Pursuing one's passion as a side hustle is becoming more common among younger people, employment experts told CNA. A side hustle generally refers to any type of employment taken on in addition to one's full-time job, and is usually freelance or part-time work.
In the past, it was common for people to take on more than one job to make ends meet, said Mr Adrian Tan, a future of work strategist with the Institute for Human Resource Professionals .“With more millennials in the workforce, the objective of juggling two jobs is no longer just for survival or a display of dissatisfaction from benefit compensation,” said IHRP’s Mr Tan.
“Put simply, these serious leisure activities often showcase individuals' competence in specific crafts. Furthermore, it allows them to autonomously express an authentic side of themselves, which gives them a strong sense of self-fulfillment,” he said. So began his love for writing. He has gone on to pen pieces for local football clubs, the Football Association of Singapore as well as a number of other clients.
Labour economist Walter Theseira agreed, noting that these side hustles increase the amount of labour resources devoted to “measurable economic activity”. As both industries took a dive with the COVID-19 pandemic, she moved to her current full-time role last year. In March this year, she also became a spin instructor at Xyco Studio after getting to know the founders through her full-time job.
“It’s therapeutic for me because there is a methodology and steps that you have to go through. Weirdly every time I go through that process it feels that it is giving me that sort of calmness … That is why for me when I cut people’s hair after my work I don’t feel it as a chore.”Like Ms Marshall and Mr Kenneth Tan, some people who take on side hustles may simply be pursuing personal interests that are then “incidentally monetised”, said Robert Walters’ Ms Lee.
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